[Kamokazi @ May 10th 2007 8:32AM]

The point of anti-theft devices is to keep honest people honest. What that means is it takes away temptation from minor thievery...people just stealing a few things, usually to use themselves. Acquiring a RF activation device would be expensive...you'd have to be stealing for a profit then.

You'll never stop a determined criminal at a retail level...there are and probably always will be too many ways to cheat the system. But you can cut out a majority of the theft by deterring the minor thieves with devices like this.

[R2P2 @ May 10th 2007 9:24AM]

Unless the packaging on the disc says in big, bold letters, "THIS DISC WILL NOT WORK IF YOU STEAL IT", "minor thieves" will still steal the discs. Heck, the label probably wouldn't even stop them, since they wouldn't believe it. The disc won't work when they get it home, so they might think twice about stealing more discs, but if they're "minor" they probably don't steal on a regular basis to begin with, right? This won't really reduce losses at retail, so much as piss off the people causing the losses.